News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-14
MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
NOTABLE EVENTS FOUND RE
CORDED IN THE PAPERS.
In the Car Scat-A Hungry Fish
A Letter Carrier-A Surprised
Sheep HCrder, Etc, Etc.

Vicksburg, Miss, had an experience
| with Il RATHER the other day which, he
says, will haunt him to the day of his
! death. He went into his smoke-housC
to get ham, when the door blew to be
hind him, lea ing him in pitchy dark
ness. AS he turned to open it he saw
two cleaning eyes in front of the doo1
| and an OminOuS rattle warned him that
a snake was there ready to spring. He
| killed the snake and escaped, but he
can give no definite idea how he did it.
He remembers hurting the ham at the
reptile and picking up piece of board
which he stumbled over, but that is all.
The contest excited him so that he was
| i'll for two days afterwards.
The managers of Bellevue Park, at
Pittsburgh, recently bought seven fine
deer in Michigan and had them shipped
to the park, where Il nice big yard with
seven-foot fence was waiting for them.
The boxes were carefully placed in the
yard and opened, and the animals came
| out one by one. Then the biggest deer
turned her large, dreamy eyes toward the
| seven-fOot fence, and in moment made
for it, followed by the other six. Those
who were present were willing to swear
that that dreamy eyed animal leapcd
twenty-five feet high over the fence if
she cleared it at al, and she certainly
cleared it, as did the other six A re
ward is now offered for the Michigan
jumpers.
A MAINE man says that the other day,
when walking along the shore in South
GoIdsboro, he saw fox coming down
the bank. He stood perfectly still, and
the fox, after seeing that the coast
seemed clear, walked down the bank
and was quickly followed by seven
young ones. They came within forty
feet of where the man was standing to a
black mussel bed, and here the mother
fox tried to teach her children to cat
these shell fish. But they were too full
of fun to attend to eating at just that
time, and commenced q regular jubilee
among themselves. At one time four of
them stood up, joined hands, and had
-four hands around"
HE Sunday school scholars of Pal
myra, Mo-, had big picnic last week,
and the boys built bonfire without
noticing that it was directly over q sus-
p1c1ous looking hole. While lunch was
being eaten, however, there was a great
commotion in the fire, and swarm of
snakes came squirming out. The local
chronicler says that the scene which
ensued battles description. Women
screamed, men shouted and there was a
wild rush for safety. But the men and
boys rallied for the fray, and, arming
themselves with sticks, killed eleven of
the reptiles. Three of these were large
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WHILE fishing in Abbott's Lake, ILL.,,
q few days since, George H. Berger
caught catfish which had the appear
ance of being quite n gormandizer. 1t
was of the species called channel cat,
was about eighteen inches i'll length,
and weighed about eight pounds. After
landing the fish Mr.. Berger observed
something protruding from the fsh's
mouth, and upon closer examination
found it to be the head of n snake. The
fish was cut open and snake over four
feet in length was taken from its stom-
ach. The snake was water moccasin
and was still alive.
A LADY, burdened with many bundles,
entered a street car, and after taking a
seat, began getting out her nickel to
pay her fare. The nickel she finally
captured-the only bit of money left
from her shopping expedition-and put
it in her mouth while she replaced her
pocketbook, fumbled her bundles and
made herself as uncomfortably comfort
able as she knew how. The conductor
touched her arm. She turned with a
start, grew white, then red, and attempt
ed to explain, poor thing why she
couldn't pay. She had swallowed the
money.
sHEEP-HERDER in the vicinity of
Elk Greek, California, who is a man with
one arm, was out attending his flock
early one morning when n panther came
up out of the brush and caught sheep.
The man, not knowing what it was, ran
up and struck it with a stick over the
head. The panther, being quite hungry,
held on to the sheep till the man went
off and got another stick and then gave
him q second blow on the head, when he
let oof the sheep and ran up into tree.
Panthers are very numerous out there,
and when hungry get quite impudent.
NJ. Nj. SHEATs of Watkinsville, Ga,
saw in the woods near his house q large
pine tree in which bees had made their
nest. He said nothing about it, and
soon moved out of the neighbOrhOOd.
After ten years he moved back, and one
of the first things he did was to examine
the bee tree. The bees were still there,
and he called in some of his neighbors
for help, and cut the tree down, when 1t
was found to contain n hollow thirty
eight feet long and eight inches in diam
eter, chock full of honey from one end
to the other.
A PROMINENT d. d. said to q Baptist
editor: "You are probably not aware of
the fact that this man, in whose praise
your paper speaks, gives both you and
your paper a kick every chance he can
get" The other man replied: 81 am
aware of that, but his not liking me is
no reason why / should not like what is
good in him, and he would dislike me
more than he does, if he knew as much
about me as l know about myself.
A CHICKEN thief has recently been ar
rested at Xenia, Ohio, who seems to be
at the head of his profession. He oper-
atcd with q two-horse covered spring
wagon, and was always careful to do his
stealing out of the county. 1t is known
that his profits ran as high as 500 per
drive to the scene of his depredations
in the night, and would sometimes cap
ture as many as 300 fowls.
JIM PONCE, of st. Augustine, Fla,
going through the woods heard tremen-
dous squawls, yells and roars, and, carl-
tiously investigating, came upon seven
foot panther fighting with an alligator,
which had tho panther fast in its pom
| dcrous jaws. Ponce sided with the under
dog and shot the alligator, whereupon
the panther, freeing himself, made for
the hunter, who had hard fight before
he killed the ungrateful beast.
WHEN a Boston letter carrier boosted
to some friends that he could tell when
there was n bill in a letter by the feel
ing, he kept his place just ten days
| longer. While he was looked upon as
| honest and reliable, the postmaster AZ
| gued that carrier who spent his time
| in feeling of letters to detect then
money contents, would some day want
| to open one to see if he was dead right.
A GRATIor county (Michigan) mar
! cut off q couple of his fingers during his
term of service in the war of the rebel
lion, and then recently applied for q
! pension On the ground that rebel bull
let removed them. He was greatly sur
prised when a special agent stuck his
regimental record under his nose
discharged owing to self-infictet
wounds to escape duty"
ONE of the jury in noted case triet
in Chicago is much ayerse to tobacco
The other eleven are not. The resul
is that the anti-tObacco man has sepa
| rate room. q special bailiff to attend tC